X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,EXECUTABLE_URI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-IronPortListener: Outbound_SMTP X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvkMAPKKAk+cKEcV/2dsb2JhbABDggWDCqZHgQeBBYFyAQEBBBIREVUCAQgNCwICGA4CAgIdExUQAQEEARoah2CZd4lRkHCBL4lKM2MEiDeEO41/hH2HZg From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" To: "cygwin AT cygwin DOT com" , "'Hongyi Zhao'" Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 23:58:55 -0500 Subject: RE: The -O option of curl under cygwin. Message-ID: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20A43ADEDF0@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> References: <4F01C45D DOT 9090306 AT gmail DOT com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by delorie.com id q034xiZC002470 Hongyi Zhao Wrote on Monday, January 02, 2012 10:51 PM On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:51:09 +0100, marco atzeri wrote: >> I think you misunderstood the curl documentation, in this way it works >> as you expect >> >> curl -L >> http://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/win32/miktex/setup/setup-2.9.4321.exe >> -o ./miktex/setup/setup-2.9.4321.exe --create-dirs > >Thanks for your hints. But you can see the following explanations in the curl >documentation: > >-O/--remote-name Write output to a file named as the remote file > >Furthermore, in my case the destination folder, i.e, ./miktex/setup/, >already exists there, so I shouldn't trouble the --create-dirs option. >I only want to put the setup-2.9.4321.exe in the destination folder >without giving the destination filename, i.e, let curl use the filename >appeared in the remote site/webpage to name the downloaded file automatically. >Any hints for my purpose?> cd curl -O http://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/win32/miktex/setup/setup-2.9.4321.exe cd - Works for me - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.